They have been analysed by Cecchetti in the paper quoted above. Footnote 134: This word was the source of much embarrassment to Merret, the translator of Neri’s little manual on glass, of which I shall have more to say further on. Quite regardless of the context, he throughout his translation rendered the words ‘_canne di conterie_’—that is to say, the glass rods from which the beads were made—as ‘rails for counting houses’! Footnote 135: The term ‘bead’ was early transferred from the ‘bid’ or prayer to the small spherical bodies strung on a cord by which these prayers were counted, and before the end of the fourteenth century the word was already used in a secular sense also. Footnote 136: These _canne_ are described as ‘_de vero [vetro] commun, Christallini et colorade de diversi sorti_.’ Footnote 137: Note in this connection the recent discovery of ‘chevron’ beads at Treviso, referred to below. Footnote 138: Something like the apparatus used for roasting coffee, it would seem. I do not attempt to give any explanation of the two rival processes—_a spiedo_ (on a broach or spit) and _a ferracia_. That attempted by Mr. Nesbitt (_South Kensington Glass_, p. civ.) is not satisfactory. Footnote 139: It is not, I think, generally known that beads were made in the east of London, early in the last century, by this process—by dropping off the glass upon a revolving spit or rod of iron (Hartshorne, p. 106). Footnote 140: According to Dr. Petrie’s interpretation (see above, Chapter II.). It is difficult to understand how the elaborate beads found in Etruscan and Greek tombs—those with satyr masks especially—were built up without the use of the blow-pipe. Footnote 141: Now preserved in the local museum at Treviso, where I lately had an opportunity of examining them. Nothing was found with them except a few small rods of coloured glass. It has been suggested that this was a contraband store, at some time destroyed by fire; but the fragments are in no case fused together. This parti-coloured glass, we may note, would be of little value for ‘cullet,’ and defective beads would therefore be thrown away. Footnote 142: A fine specimen has found its way into the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the British Museum. Footnote 143: The term ‘Aggri’ should, perhaps, be reserved for large beads, of which the colours extend right through the mass, but the term is not very definitely used in the African trade. Footnote 144: